Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi
Subtitle: John Selden
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: February 7, 2008
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780199234301
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; Jewish studies; England
First sentence: In a series of letters written in the summer of 1629, Peter Paul Rubens expresses his distress at learning 'that poor Selden is a prisoner of state for having spoken too freely in the last assembly of the English Parliament'.